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<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - distributed version control system - already installed on Linux probably</li>
<li><a href="fzconfig.html">Filezilla</a> - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server</li>
<li><a href="https://survex.com/download.html">Survex</a>, including the Aven visualisation tool.
<li><a href="https://survex.com/related.html">Survex related tools</a> Carto, CaveScript (used by CaveView the 3D browser visualiser).
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
<li><a href="https://therion.speleo.sk/">Therion</a> - Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3D models of caves.
<li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/AndrewA/topparser/src/default/">TopParser</a> - to convert PocketTopo .top files from a DistoX into Therion.
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<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/">Viking</a> - an alternative to GPSprune. The <a href="https://github.com/viking-gps/viking">code</a> is on github.
<li>python, if you are extending troggle or the scripts in expoweb/noinfo/ - already installed on Linux <img src="https://www.python.org/favicon.ico" width=64 hspace="20" align="right">
<li>python packages you will want to install: [<em>not yet documented</em>]
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/qgis3-survex-import">qgis3-survex-import</a> - plugin to import/export survex .3d files</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/qgis3-survex-import">qgis3-survex-import</a> - Patrick's plugin to import/export survex .3d files</li>
<li><a href="https://vectr.com/user-guide/">Vectr svg</a> - quick and easy sketcher (browser-based, Chrome only) for making rigging topo diagrams: "free forever" committment, but not open source. Please export as svg not jpg or png.
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/inkscape-survex-export">inkscape-survex</a> - Patrick's plugin to export a traced inkscape line drawing to a survex file.
<li><a href="http://www.thomas-holder.de/projects/inkscape-speleo/extensions/">inkscape-speleo</a> - plugin to import/export survex, therion and pockettopo files to the drawing package inkscape.
<li><a href="https://imagemagick.org/script/">Imagemagick convert</a> for re-scaling photographs and scanned images and converting from PDF to JPG. (NB you may need to fix this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52998331/imagemagick-security-policy-pdf-blocking-conversion">security issue</a>)
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<h4>For Linux users only:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux">GUI for git</a> - There is a choice on Linux but many people just use the command line.
<li>Your favourite text editor. gedit is installed on the <em>expo laptop</em> and has syntax highlighting for .svx files too. This works with <a href="https://survex.com/changes.html">all GtkSourceView-based editors</a> (thanks to Phil Withnall).
<li>Your favourite text editor. gedit is installed on the <em>expo laptop</em> and has syntax highlighting for .svx files too. This works with <a href="https://survex.com/changes.html">all GtkSourceView-based editors</a> (thanks to Phil Withnall). Download a local copy of the syntax colourizer <a download href="/site_media/survex.lang">survex.lang</a>.
</ul>
<h4>For Linux and WSL (text mode only) Windows users only:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/">python for windows</a>. We are moving from python 2.7 to python 3.7 during June 2020.
<li><a href="https://winscp.net/eng/download.php">WinScp</a> can be used as an alternative to Filezilla if you like.
<li><a href="https://www.java.com/en/">java</a> - needed for GPSprune and CaveConverter. Has to be installed separately on a Windows machine.
<li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python such as <a href="https://www.aptana.com/">Aptana Studio</a>. Configuring these to syntax-highlight .svx files has yet to be done.
<li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python. We have a syntax-highlighter to colourize .svx files, download it: <a href="/site_media/survex.xml">survex.xml</a>.
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<h4>Visual Studio Code editor</h4>